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What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with...

I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months,...

The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough of the old culture in, and then that old culture will convert the milk into yogurt.

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store.

I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.

As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.

The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have...

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don't think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.

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